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When I was young, I lived in Sha Tin and my uncle lived in Hong Kong Island. My uncle had a full time job, but he sometimes worked part-time on the weekend nights and my aunt was a night-shift convenience store assistant. Whenever they had to work at night, they called my mum and asked…

The Kowloon City district was probably the area I visited the most in the 1980s. I spent my 7-year secondary school life there. Back then, the aeroplanes flew overhead everyday. The hawkers swarmed Lion Rock Road. Walking past the walled city on the way to school, snapping up some snacks in the international supermarket off…

Speaking about the unfathomable mystery in Kowloon City that is often too subtle to notice, it has to be the flyover as shown in the picture below. Its construction stayed unfinished for years. There has hardly been any progress since I was a student. Even though I have been working full time for years, it…

Most old shopping centres in Kowloon City were cramped, messy and gloomy due to the lack of natural light. Despite the unpleasant layout, people flocked to shop there, since the small shops gave people a feeling of closeness and friendliness. During the rise of video game consoles in the 1980s and 1990s, I was studying…

As I remember, the old-style shopping centres in Kowloon City District, Hung Hom Square especially, were relatively small and they housed local businesses which had been open for a long time. I had a friend living in To Kwa Wan when I was young. We had limited pocket money as students. To save money, we…

我最想回到「紅土工業」時期，懷念一下金錢牌和駱駝牌的保溫壺。保温壺在以前和現在都為人類帶來便利。雙層玻璃膽保溫壺的保溫能力特別強，將熱騰騰的湯水或飯餸帶回公司或醫院而不需翻熱，既方便又快捷。用來放入剛煲好的中藥也合適不過，中藥煲好後帶回公司分兩次飲，不宜翻叮，非傳統保溫壺的保溫力不夠強。有機會可以用來放雪糕試試保冷效果如何！

聽聞屈臣氏主要生產六種味道的汽水，包括檸檬、沙士、薑啤、湯力、橙露及一種叫果子露的汽水，還有從美國引入的哥喇，真係好想試這些口味和睇下以前汽水的包裝和生產過程，同埋好想帶幾支返來跟家人分享，留返個空樽做紀念品。 在眾多工業中，我最懷念的是造船業。三十年代有一家庇利船廠，據悉探險家製造了一艘名為「香港海龍」的帆船用作大西洋探險之用，惟最終未能如願。之後有藝術家利用區內回收的舊布，結合工藝縫製船袋重塑「香港海龍」和創作「海龍船袋」，並於船袋中放置一些關於土瓜灣歷史的書，讓市民打開船袋時能夠認識歷史，正因為這段歷史略有「遺憾」，反而令人更加懷念。

The neighbourhood of To Kwa Wan is both familiar and unfamiliar to me. When I was a child, I lived with my grandfather in the 13 Streets. Our flat was on the fifth floor of one of the tenement buildings. It was easy for me to go up and down the stairs, when I was…

In the past, my grandpa lived in Ming Lun Street, To Kwa Wan. I would see a few big and round “steel frames” on the way to visit him when I was a child. I was curious and wanted to climb up the frame to play. When I got older, I learned that they are…

I have lived in To Kwa Wan since I was 2 years old, studied here, got married here. For those who do not know the area, they would think that it is similar to Hung Hom, a varied mix of community all crowded within the area. However, I just love the warmly small shops here….

In the early 1970s, I was working a summer job in To Kwa Wan. Buildings along the 13 Streets, on the ground floor, attic and on the second floor, were “cottage factories” of different light industries, such as metal hardware, electroplating, molding, and automobile repairs. The orders were from local businesses, as well as outsourced…

When I was young, I lived on the top (8th) floor in a tenement building on Lun Cheung Street, To Kwa Wan. The building had two entrances. Each flat had a few households living in them. I remember that the happiest thing in my childhood was to play with my neighbours. My mother was working…

My deepest impression was the 13 streets in To Kwa Wan, because a local friend who once lived in To Kwa Wan called it “Beasts Street”. To discover all the animal and beast references, I took a walk along Ma Tau Kok Road, passing by Lung “Dragon” To Street, Ying “Eagle” Yeung Street, Tsun “Horse”…

This is a story about the past and present of To Kwa Wan: Although I have never personally witnessed the glorious industrial era of To Kwa Wan, my parents must have. It was because they lived in To Kwa Wan from their acquaintance to their marriage. My father lived at 9 Sheung Heung Road and…

Although I have not witnessed the rise and fall of To Kwa Wan’s industry, nor is it a neighbourhood in my community, I have an inseparable relationship with this place. I spent my childhood and teenage school life in To Kwa Wan. I remember when I was young, my mother would personally pick me up…

Most of the good memories of To Kwa Wan are related to the Cattle Depot. One-time, I often watched performances and exhibitions there. I remember one of the exhibitions called “As the leaves fall “, which shared with the public the art works of the senior citizens and the story of the silver-haired artist. One…

I have lived in To Kwa Wan since I was a child and my family was poor. My father was the only one who went to work at home. In addition to taking care of our two brothers at home, my mother would occasionally pick up some sewing work and work from home. I still…

Speaking from a pair of hands. She is an elderly person, with bent fingers and weak hands that are difficult to move. Knowing her because of my outreach work, my impression is that she is a clever old lady. During the chat with her, she shared the story of her life in To Kwa Wan…

After my paternal grandfather & paternal grandmother got married, they lived in To Kwa Wan with their family. Then the children grew up and they moved to a new town. After my maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother got married, they lived in To Kwa Wan with their friends, and their children grew up. By coincidence,…

I have a fond feeling for the girly product under-stairs shops. I started to dress up when I was a student. At that time, there was an under-stairs shop called Fa Kee in the Kowloon City District. I always shopped there. There were many kinds of accessories, and the owner would teach me to tie…